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C. W. Haden sends information that Leander J. Bryan and Chief Deputy Steele are corresponding with Senator Hanna in an effort to ensure that Bryan or Steele are appointed United States Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama. Bryan supposedly offered his support for Hanna’s presidential nomination in 1906.
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1902-01-12
Last night, E. Mont Reily created the first 1904 Roosevelt club in America.
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1901
John Lovett hopes for President Roosevelt’s success and reelection in four years. He encloses one of his latest pictures.
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1902-01-02
Charles Ware sends his best wishes to President Roosevelt. He is confident the people will want Roosevelt to stay in office in 1904.
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1901-11-17
Joseph Bucklin Bishop encloses clippings and a letter from Governor Taft that may interest President Roosevelt. He believes that Seth Low will be elected as mayor of New York, New York, and has heard rumors about a group of Republicans planning for a presidential “boom” on behalf of Governor Odell.
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1901-10-26
Lyrics, written by Thomas F. Leahy, for the campaign song “McKinley and Roosevelt,” to be sung to the tune of “The Battle Cry of Freedom.”
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1901-10-26
William C. LeGendre read an article by William Nivison Wilmer about potential presidential candidates and he concluded in favor of President Roosevelt’s candidacy. However, Wilmer had issues with the pension question and LeGendre suggested to him that Roosevelt’s record shows that he would be capable of starting an investigation of the pension issue.
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1901-10-07
M. V. Hemperley supports President Roosevelt but he warns that many Republicans did not want Roosevelt to be vice president and will support other Republican presidential candidates for the next election.
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1901-10-12
Booker T. Washington reports what he knows about a certain person and his political convictions. He notes that the party voted for John M. Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner of the National Democratic Party in 1896, but entered the Democratic primaries in 1900 to help defeat the nomination of William Jennings Bryan. Washington suggests their friends be advised to appoint a Montgomery man to represent the “best class of white people” and to appoint William Demos Crum as internal revenue collector for South Carolina, representing the “best class of colored.”
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1901-10-04
The country is behind President Roosevelt and James Brown Potter expects to see Roosevelt win the next presidential election.
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1901-09-26
Robert Chisolm is concerned about the state of the Republican Party in the South and believes that President Roosevelt can improve the situation. However, Chisolm has heard that Roosevelt is considering not being a presidential candidate after he has completed William McKinley’s term. Such a decision is too early. Roosevelt can help matters in the South and should only appoint Republicans to government positions.
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1901-09-22
Richard Wainwright wishes that President Roosevelt had been permitted to wait and be elected president in 1904, but he is pleased that the public can grieve for William McKinley while not fearing the future. Wainwright is appalled when he thinks of his efforts to persuade Roosevelt to stay with the navy as Roosevelt has been able to accomplish so much.
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1901-09-23
Charles Erskine Scott Wood states he can help Vice President Roosevelt with The Oregonian. If President McKinley dies and Roosevelt becomes president, Wood doubts that Roosevelt could be elected as voters do not use reason and tend to simply want change. Wood is unsure how he would vote as he is sick of all professional politicians.
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1901-09
Virginia Roosevelt sends her best wishes for the success of the Roosevelt administration and looks forward to the time when President Roosevelt is elected president in his own right. She also indicates that individuals of all political leanings seem to be pleased with the president and wish him the best.
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1901-09-20
General Wheeler was grieved at the death of William McKinley but has every confidence in the Roosevelt administration.
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1901-09-20
Everyone that Robert Underwood Johnson has contacted has confidence in President Roosevelt and expects a successful administration. Johnson did not vote for Roosevelt but is glad he was elected.
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1901-09-16
Alexander O. Brodie requests Vice President Roosevelt’s opinion on the proper timing for setting up Roosevelt clubs in Arizona for the 1904 presidential campaign. He hopes “strong action” is taken in response to the attempted assassination of President McKinley.
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1901-09-12
General Funston thanks Vice President Roosevelt for the congratulatory letter upon Funston’s commission as a brigadier general. He regrets that his military service will prevent him from “whooping it up” for a Roosevelt presidential campaign in 1904. Funston reports that the situation in the Philippines is difficult and he wishes the army could use an “iron hand.” He has a low opinion of Filipinos and does not believe they are currently suitable for self government.
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1901-09-02
Paul Morton recommends that Vice President Roosevelt keep a potential 1904 presidential campaign in the background. Roosevelt should have no antagonisms and no entangling alliances. Morton is prepared to help the campaign when the time is right.
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1901-09-02
J. S. Foster extends his sympathy to Vice President Roosevelt after hearing of Alice and Quentin Roosevelt’s illnesses. He is a supporter of Roosevelt and believes Roosevelt will be the next president. Foster hopes to become the postmaster of Fort Worth, Texas, and requests that Roosevelt speak with President McKinley on his behalf.
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1901-08-26